I am happy to announce that I have been accepted by and will be joining the Bilingual MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Texas at El Paso. Additionally, I will be a Teacher Assistant with the English Department in the First-Year Composition Program, a 3-year Teacher Assistantship. I am grateful and honored to be allowed this undertaking in El Paso, Texas, a place I dearly love and am proud to call home. The journey continues.

Benjamin Alire Sáenz's book of stories "Everything Begins & Ends at the Kentucky Club" is a profound, beautiful read, and I am so grateful to be in it.

I do not know how I would survive without books.